American Idol contestant's brilliant football-themed audition gamble paid off
American Idol contestant's brilliant football-themed audition gamble paid off
It takes guts to audition for American Idol. It takes even MORE guts to audition a Carrie Underwood song in front of the legend and Idol winner herself.
And then it takes a triple amount of guts to audition with a slowed-down version of NBC's Sunday Night Football theme song (which, of course, Underwood performs, and it's a version of Joan Jett's I Hate Myself for Loving You). But it worked!
A woman named YANI (not Yanni, that's a different performer with a different spelling) got a piano player to play slow and she delivered an incredible rendition that Underwood had to lip sync to.
Did it work? IT DID! She's off to Hollywood. Incredible work.
Brilliant.
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